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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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